New standard for GPRS? Little technical, concrete detail.
Interestingly, mentions WAP in the PAST tense...
Mobile Phone Industry Adopts New Internet Standard
REUTERS June 13, 2001 05:47 AM ET
"The world's leading mobile phone makers and operators announced on
Wednesday an industry-wide initiative they hope will bring true Internet
functionality to next-generation cellphones and lay the ghost of past
failures.
The Mobile Services Initiative (M-Services) aims to introduce an open
software and hardware standard within mobile Internet in a bid to avoid the
fiasco which surrounded the first attempt at mobile Internet, Wireless
Application Protocol (WAP).
Although the WAP standard was widely adopted in the industry, it proved far
too slow and cumbersome for most subscribers, and few worthwhile services
were offered. "
(...)
Re-paste the URL manually as needed
http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internet&Repository=INTERNET_REP&
RepositoryStoryID=%2Fnews%2FIDS%2FInternet%2FNET-TELECOMS-MOBILE-DC_TXT.XML
Vincent J. Luna, Director
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Received on Thu Jun 14 15:58:22 2001